I just wanted to put a shout out to OpenWRT, a third-party router firmware that runs on a lot of routers. Most OEM routers are running embedded Linux already, OpenWRT replaces it with a more featureful OS.
The OS backup isn't a binary, proprietary blob - it's a tar file of the configuration files by directory. I screwed up my configuration and the DNS server broke, but I was able to copy over the configs via SSH and was up and running quickly.
| Sysop: | Morningstarr |
|---|---|
| Location: | Mt. Pleasant Nc |
| Users: | 15 |
| Nodes: | 250 (1 / 249) |
| Uptime: | 235:12:10 |
| Calls: | 75 |
| Calls today: | 75 |
| Files: | 602 |
| U/L today: |
602 files (5,812M bytes) |
| D/L today: |
5,526 files (67,737M bytes) |
| Messages: | 7,309 |
| Posted today: | 33 |